The Islamic Republic of Iran “The Regime of Fear and Terror” 
by: Sadi Abdi 

Kurdistan Observer 
June 1, 2002 

The crimes that the Islamic Republic of Iran has committed against its own people during its last 23 years of its corruptive reign in Iran is not hidden to any one.  Below, as a series of questions, a glimpse of these crimes is listed. 

1- Did you know that Ayatollah Khomeini, the pioneer leader of the Islamic regime, declared a holy war on the Kurds in April 1979, and denounced the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (DPKI) as an anti -Islamic Party? 

2- Did you know that during the Iran-Iraq war, the clerics fooled hundreds of thousands of Iranian schoolchildren and youth to wear pendants as their heaven key in the battlefields after their death? 

3- Did you know that the Tehran regime harbours most of the terrorist groups and it raised the budget allocated for the terrorist groups to 270 million dollars in 1997? 

4- Did you know that one million Iranian were killed or maimed during the eight-year war with Iraq? 

5- Did you know that the eight-year war cost the Iranian economy more than a trillion (US dollar) of war damages, according to figures published by the regime itself? 

6- Did you know that Iran targets its dissidents abroad, where more than 300 opponents have been assassinated by the Iranian regime abroad? 

7- Did you know that Iranian regime has been condemned more than 20 times by the United Nations Human Rights Commission and other Human rights organizations for violating the most primitive rights of Iranian citizens? 

8- Did you know that more 12, 000 political prisoners were massacred only in a few days in 1988? The order had been given directly by Ayatollah Khomenei. 

9- Did you know that most of the terrorist groups are getting financial support from Iranian regime and the Qods Force gives the training courses? (The organization for the extraterritorial operations of the Guards Corps) and the Ministry of Intelligence. 

10- Did you know that Iran under the clerics is the only country that has “stoning to death” as punishment for women? Stoning to death is a pre-Islamic practice condemned by Islam. 

11- Did you know that more than 53% of Iranians are under the poverty line? “Banyan newspaper”. 

12- Did you know that more than 8 million Iranian Kurds forbidden to be educated in their native language and all government communications at all levels is restricted to Persian, the official language of Iran. 

13- Did you know that the Islamic regime of Iran uses the Kurdish territory, particularly Kerman shah province, as a resting place for drug addicts, criminals and other difficult groups from around the country? “Report of the United Nation Human Rights Commission, 2001”. 

14- Did you know that on July 13, 1989, Dr. Abdul Raman Ghassemlou the secretary-general of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) was assassinated in Vienna (Austria) by the Iranian terrorist-diplomats, as he was negotiating with envoys of the Iranian regime, at the latter’s invitation, for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue in Iran. 

15- Did you know that Dr. Shahpour Bakhtiar, the Shah’s last Prime Minister, was savagely killed by the Islamic regime of Iran? Bakhtiar’s throat was slit. 

16- Did you know that Iran has for decades routinely sent assassins in to other countries to kill its political opponents? 

17- Did you know that on September 17 1992, Dr. Sadiq Sharafkeni the Ssecretary-general of PDKI and also Dr Ghasimlou’s successor was gunned down along with three of his associates in Mykonos Restaurant in Berlin by the Iranian mercenaries? 

18- Did you know that Kazim Rejevy, the representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, was assassinated by the Islamic regime of Iran in Switzerland? 

19- Did you know that in the Islamic Republic’s constitution, only male Shi’a clergies can become the head of the state and take high position of the leadership? 

20- Did you know that the head of the judiciary Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi spoke out against the institution and said: “each year 600 thousands people get arrested by the Iranian authorities”. 

21- Did you know that in Iranian prisons, there have been people who have been detained for more than 22 years without any trial?

22- Did you know that today more than 6 million people of Iranians mostly young are addicted? And their name is on the dead list. 

23- Did you know that the Iranian authorities are distributing drugs among the Kurdish youth extensively in Iranian Kurdistan? 

24- Did you know that 85% of the prostitute girls in the capital city of Iran (Tehran) are sell their body to make a living according to one of the high-ranking Iranian official “Amir Ali Amiry”, quoted in Banyan newspaper. 

25- Did you know that Hashmi Refsenjani, the former President of the regime and the current head of the Expediency Council is in the top 47 wealthiest men in the world? 

26- Did you know that each year the Iranian government gives millions of barrels of free raw oil and millions of dollars to the Syrian regime? 

27- Did you know that on July 8, 1999, the government and vigilantes acting with the consent of the authorities used excessive force in attacking a dormitory during student protests in Tehran, chanting “ Hussein accept it from us” throwing students from the windows? 

28- Did you know that in respond to of one of the student’s question, President Khatemi said, “We do not have any innocent political prisoners”? 

29- Did you know that Iran has one of the largest numbers of unemployed in the world? 

30- Did you know that the Iranian authorities sexually harass most of the prisoners male or female in the Iranian prisons? 

31- Did you know that in the Iranian prisons, the authority rape the virgin girls before their execution? The clergies are saying that these girls should be raped before their execution otherwise they will go to heaven!!! 

32- Did you know that just in one day 59 young Kurds were executed in the city of Mahabad by the Iranian authorities? In response to one of the question that whether they were guilty or not, Ayatollah Khalkhali (then the head of security for Kurdistan region) had stated that “If they were guilty they will go to hell and if they were innocent they will go to heaven”!!! 

33- Did you know that the thugs sentenced for conducting “serial killing” of the dissidents in Iran were acquitted a year later Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reversed the verdicts? 

34- Did you know that the budget of Kurdistan province is not even 1% of the budget of the city of Kerman? “Norouz newspaper”. 

35- Did you know that the Iranian regime is using all its capabilities to acquire nuclear and weapons of mass destruction as quick as possible? 

36- Did you know that by the end of 2000, more than 30 independent newspapers and journals were closed; dozens of individual editors and journalists have been arrested? 

37- Did you know that each year more than 200 students are committing suicide? “Banyan newspaper”. 

38- Did you know that the Iranian forces have killed more than forty thousands of Kurdish people in Iranian Kurdistan? 

39- Did you know that 1200 executions, 17 stonings, 90 assassinations have been conducted during the Khatemi’s presidency? 

40- Did you know that the Iranian intelligence agency has vowed to re-launch its website to recruit volunteers to carry out worldwide suicide attacks? 

41- Did you know that the average Iranian people are selling their kidney to manage their lives? 

42- Did you know that in the last few years more than 27 thousands Iranians have died due to drug addiction? 

43- Did you know that the top leadership of Iran (Khamenei, (supreme leader, Refsenjani (former president) and Felahian (former intelligence minister) were found guilty by the highest German court, having directed the killing of Dr. Sadiq Sharafkeni, and the three of his aides in Berlin? 

           Sadi Abdi 
           Member of International Relations Bureau 
           Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan 
           Sadi_abdi@hotmail.com 

 
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